Enterprise IT is often a victim of unnecessary complexity and purpose-built infrastructure. Hyperconverged infrastructure can remedy that by offering simplicity, quick installation and high performance, according to several industry experts and practitioners.Hyperconverged infrastructure integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization -- sometimes along with other features like security and WAN optimization -- in a single appliance or software system installed on commodity hardware.

 

But the easy set-up makes spinning up new applications and capacity simpler than in the past. Enterprises have a tendency to create the "gold standard" of IT for their organization,and then lock it down where it remains unchanged for years.

Hyperconvergence can help enterprises get back some control by managing the majority of day-to-day tasks in one stack, offloading firmware and software updates, and providing RESTful APIs to make building workflows simple and flexible, Wahl said.

Organizations can take advantage of hyperconvergence to change the attitude toward IT infrastructure from a cost center to an enabler of business, said Wahl, even with lean staffing. Rather than building infrastructure, IT teams can concentrate on deploying services that consume infrastructure.

 Source: http://www.networkcomputing.com